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| California breakup plan would create rich and poor states: report | ||
| 2014-08-14 | ||
[REUTERS] A long-shot proposal to break Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, into six separate states would also divide rich and poor, according to a legislative analysis released on Wednesday.
"At least initially - and perhaps for many decades after their creation - the six proposed new states would have widely varying income levels," said the report by Legislative Analyst Mac Taylor. The wealthiest of the proposed new states would be "Silicon Valley," comprised of the affluent, pricey tech hub near San Jose, along with the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... That state would have a per capita income of $63,288, twice that of the poorest region and a third higher than Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,'s current per capita income of $46,477. A state of Silicon Valley would bring in $2,168 per person annually in income taxes, the report showed. The poorest of the new states, to be carved out of the agricultural Central Valley, would have a per capita income of $35,510 and bring in $472 in income taxes per resident. Jefferson, to be carved out of the northernmost Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, region near the Oregon border and named after the third U.S. president, would have per capita income of $36,147, and garner income tax of $463 per person per year. | ||
| Posted by:Fred |
| #10 I suggest Cali liberals put their money where their mouth is and divide into 7 states with Hamasylvania being the seventh. It only needs to be 28 miles long and 7 miles long to house all of Gaza residents. I suggest as close to San Fran or LA as possible. |
| Posted by: Airandee 2014-08-14 20:23 |
| #9 Do you suppose they think that far ahead? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2014-08-14 20:02 |
| #8 The real problem would be the water. Which is why it'll never happen in a nut shell. El Lay and the Fey Area will be committing suicide if they relinquished control of their extremely long distance lifelines. |
| Posted by: Hupolush Grundy1293 2014-08-14 17:26 |
| #7 Democrats balkanize everything with their inept ideology. If they do this, I break my state into 60 states. Idiots |
| Posted by: newc 2014-08-14 16:29 |
| #6 The real problem would be the water. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2014-08-14 14:36 |
| #5 There are some overpopulated blue counties and then there is the rest of the state. I could be wrong but I suspect the pension crisis that is threatening California would hit the blue areas far worse than the rest. I also suspect fraking which is the only way to save the state budget would be denied to the blue areas so they'd really have no way out of the financial bind. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2014-08-14 14:35 |
| #4 Think San Francisco and Los Angeles. That's where the donks are. And I'm thinking that when they don't have the rest of the state to help pay for their socialist policies they might start wishing they hadn't done this. You can talk about their per capita income all you want but unless you factor in the extremely high cost of housing in those areas you're not getting the true picture. And then you have the homeless who are actually subsidized in San Francisco...the panhandlers who pee and poop on the sidewalks. Hey, I'm ready to divorce San Francisco. Bring me the papers. I'll sign 'em. That way I won't have to feel like I'm responsible for the likes of Boxer, Feinstein and Pelosi. Spit. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-08-14 11:23 |
| #3 It would formally relieve the wealthy in Silicon Valley from supporting all the poor folks, and you can bet that they'd pull their support in a New York minute... True. However, it would also allow the poor folk to keep their water rights rather than forking them over for the rich people's lawns and pools. These 'rich' people can track the flow of money, but seem rather dense about the flow of water and electricity. Them poor folks are about to get as many Senators as them rich folks own. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-08-14 09:01 |
| #2 I'm not sure about that. I believe California is much like Washington where there are blue cities which are, in effect, driving the politics over the Red rural areas. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2014-08-14 01:41 |
| #1 And it would give the Dems 10 more senators. Oh joy. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-08-14 00:28 |